SMITH v. FRANK

No. 89-16723.

923 F.2d 139 (1991)

Jack C. SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony M. FRANK, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Terris, Laraine L. Laudati, Terris, Edgecombe, Hecker & Wayne, Washington, D.C., James E. Eggleston, Mocine & Eggleston, Oakland, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen E. Alpern, Office of Labor Law, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C., George Chris Stoll, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before NELSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and STEPHENS, District Judge.


STEPHENS, District Judge:

Plaintiff appeals the judgment in favor of defendant Postmaster General in his handicap discrimination action against the United States Postal Service brought under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 701, et seq. We hold that the district court erred in refusing to accept plaintiff's timely filed but lengthy objections to the magistrate's findings of fact and conclusions of law and in denying the plaintiff a reasonable...

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